Parallax Academy#1: Alexander Bard and Layman Pascal - Everything is Religion
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How to Create a Culture of Trance
There's a similarity to trance as well here. In order for people to live their lives in a meaningful way and contribute and function together, they have to be able to keep their attention focused on a particular pattern. I think the pre-historical peoples, the shamans, were often much better at that than our contemporary notion of what hypnosis is. That's an extraordinary act of collaborative trance making. People aren't going to do that just out of the blue. They've got to be organized ... It feels good to be in that flow. These technologies of trance and flow are really something that the early peoples are expert at,. But they're mediated through the shamanic class who wants
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